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Most importantly, we need new avenues to hold Harvard’s decision-makers accountable for their ethical lapses and, hopefully, to prevent such lapses. It is time for the Harvard Corporation to open up its meetings and minute notes to the public. It is time for it to provide...
Imagine an experiment in which a few hundred women with breast cancer are divided into two groups. Patients in one group have their tumors surgically removed, while those in the other wait patiently, keeping a close eye on the progress of their disease, and are treated only if their cancer...
What does this mean for you? The New England Journal study probably tilts the equation toward treatment--especially if you have early-stage prostate cancer and expect to live 10 more years. (On average, it may take such a tumor, if it recurs, a decade or more after treatment to...
As with any other complex medical study, however, there are some tricky caveats. First off, prostate cancer is treated differently in Scandinavia, where watchful waiting is the norm, than it is in the U.S. Moreover, because Scandinavian men are not screened for prostate cancer as aggressively as American men, they...
We've grown up: As a nation whose civilian population largely escaped the horrors of the 20th century, it's been said that Americans can't possibly understand what it's like to live under the fear of imminent death known to so many of our allies. Now, some of...